Courtesy of green™ consulting firms, travel agents are now doubling as climate activists so that parent companies can claim to fulfil the UN's Sustainability Goals
Except for the obvious financial loss, I don't think it will have that great an effect on Ruefa. My experience with such courses is that people appreciate the day or several off from actual work, the free lunch and if it is a course over several days then probably also a nice dinner. The content will fly right past them and will be forgotten within a week. Nothing in the actual work will change, but the employer can tick of a box on the do-good checklist.
One has to give it to (T)schas though. The grift he has going is good, although its success may be due to everybody knowing it's a grift but not caring, as long as they can tick off those boxes. Also, I think the reason why he left from an actual government position may have been that one can make much more money as a consultant hired in by the people one knows in government.
Good wordplay with (T)schas (which means 'fart'). And, yes, that's the best way to set up such a racket: know the people awarding these contracts and make money off the public trough while claiming to be an 'entrepreneur'…
AD 1025: Pilgrims going to the Holy Land to bring back a certain sea shell to prove they actually went there. Pretty soon you could by such, with "written proof", in harbours and docks in SE Europe.
AD 2025: Tourists going abroad make sure to pay their plenary indulgence beforehand, so they can carry proof of their piety. Pretty soon, there'll be the opportunity to buy the same or similar symbols on-line, much cheaper, so others can see how pious one is.
I think some days I may be addled: "Wear this symbol to prove you're a good person"? Haven't we, as a species and a culture done that enough times by now, to understand?
Perhaps you'd like to obtain a special indulgence by virtually visiting any place, which allows you to virtue-signal without causing damage via carbon emissions?
Except for the obvious financial loss, I don't think it will have that great an effect on Ruefa. My experience with such courses is that people appreciate the day or several off from actual work, the free lunch and if it is a course over several days then probably also a nice dinner. The content will fly right past them and will be forgotten within a week. Nothing in the actual work will change, but the employer can tick of a box on the do-good checklist.
One has to give it to (T)schas though. The grift he has going is good, although its success may be due to everybody knowing it's a grift but not caring, as long as they can tick off those boxes. Also, I think the reason why he left from an actual government position may have been that one can make much more money as a consultant hired in by the people one knows in government.
Good wordplay with (T)schas (which means 'fart'). And, yes, that's the best way to set up such a racket: know the people awarding these contracts and make money off the public trough while claiming to be an 'entrepreneur'…
AD 1025: Pilgrims going to the Holy Land to bring back a certain sea shell to prove they actually went there. Pretty soon you could by such, with "written proof", in harbours and docks in SE Europe.
AD 2025: Tourists going abroad make sure to pay their plenary indulgence beforehand, so they can carry proof of their piety. Pretty soon, there'll be the opportunity to buy the same or similar symbols on-line, much cheaper, so others can see how pious one is.
I think some days I may be addled: "Wear this symbol to prove you're a good person"? Haven't we, as a species and a culture done that enough times by now, to understand?
Perhaps you'd like to obtain a special indulgence by virtually visiting any place, which allows you to virtue-signal without causing damage via carbon emissions?
Bwa-ha-ha! In the words of Mencken:
No-one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
I'd say we can remove "American" from the quote and it still works.